X.Org Foundation Status Update
Peter Hutterer
17 Sep 2015
XDC 2015
Thanks to Tom for organising XDC!
X.Org Board of Directors
- Board of Directors
- Rob Clark (Red Hat)
- Alex Deucher (AMD)
- Egbert Eich (SuSE)
- Keith Packard (HP)
- Martin Peres (Intel)
- Matt Dew (Micron)
- Peter Hutterer (Red Hat)
- Daniel Vetter (Intel), Secretary
- Treasurer:
X.Org Board of Directors
Elected for 2 years at a time
- Election usually in the Feb-April timeframe
- Four board members up for election every year
- You too can be member of the board
The BoD decides distribution of funds
The BoD does not control the technical direction of X, Wayland, Mesa, ...
X.Org Foundation PR accounts
- G+: X.Org Foundation
- Twitter: @XOrgFoundation
- YouTube: X.Org Foundation
Google Summer of Code
- 6 students accepted, 5 completed the project successfully
- "Enabling Freedreno on Android", Varad Gautam (Rob Clark)
- "Range analysis pass, and porting optimization passes to Mesa's NIR", Thomas Helland (Matt Turner)
- "Apitrace: Add support for performance counters in the profiling view.", Alex Tru (Martin Peres)
- "Convert the BOCHS and CIRRUS drivers to atomic mode-setting", Zhao Junwang (Daniel Vetter)
- "OpenCL image support for the r600 gallium driver", Zoltan Gilian (Tom Stellard)
- 1 student pulled out
EVoC
The Endless Vacation of Code is X.Org's GSoC equivalent, but unrestricted by timeframes.
1 project, ongoing
- "Porting Glean Tests to Piglit", Juliet Fru (Brian Paul)
EVoC Changes
We need to handle EVoC better
- tightened the rules after last year, but we don't scale well (or at all...)
- struggling to get students up to speed from zero
- cross-project attempts are difficult
Future projects only from known contributors
Outreachy (Outreach Program for Women)
Outreachy is a GSoC-like program for anyone who identifies as female.
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/
X.Org had one participant in Round 9 (Dec 2014 - March 2015)
- "Server-side XCB", Asal Mirzaeva (Christian Linhart)
SPI merger
X.Org is an LLC with 501(c)3 tax status in the US
- All we do is XDC, GSoC, EVoC and Outreachy
- We are not good at administrative tasks
Decided to merge with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
Benefits: offload administrative
SPI merger
By-law changes need to get approved by 2/3 of the membership.
April vote:
- 35 yay, 2 nay, 4 abstain
- less than 2/3 of the membership → not passed
SPI merger
Annual BoD election is planned for February
- You too can run for the board election
By-law vote will be at the same election
We need 2/3 vote! Please vote!
X.Org Foundation Summary
- Google Summer of Code
- Endless Vacation of Code
- Outreachy/OPW
- SPI Merger